Evaluating the robustness of hospital evacuation plans

2006 IIE Annual Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Taaffe, Kevin M ^a   Tayfur, Esengul ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency response; Hospital evacuation; Optimization; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; HOSPITAL EVACUATION;

COSTS; HURRICANE EFFECTS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 84858476835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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